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Showing Evidence Meets Classroom Success
December 30, 2005
Showing Evidence, an educational tool that Inquirium developed for Intel, is hitting the classroom and getting some rave reviews. The Winter 2006 edition of the Intel Innovator provides this exciting testimonial of how one classroom successfully used Showing Evidence to explore controversial biotechnology topics. Students used the tool to construct arguments, support them with evidence, evaluate their claims, and share their thinking with peers.
Students were so engaged that they used Showing Evidence from home, and were still talking about the project six months later. Several students, who had strong opinions, changed their position based on compelling evidence they uncovered themselves— a first in [the teacher’s] 17 years of teaching.
InqScribe 1.0.2
August 29, 2005
We’ve released InqScribe 1.0.2. This free update greatly improves subtitling support for non-English transcripts and contains several minor fixes. You can download InqScribe 1.0.2 here.
Showing Evidence Featured in The Intel Innovator
August 01, 2005
There’s a nice introduction to our newest project, Showing Evidence, in the latest Intel Innovator.
Students encounter arguments everywhere they turn — from talk radio to television crime dramas to family discussions. But what makes an argument convincing? And how does evidence come into play to support a well-reasoned claim?
The Showing Evidence Tool is designed to help students construct an argument and support it with evidence. The newest thinking tool from Intel® Innovation in Education, Showing Evidence provides an online, interactive tool and workspace, with supporting materials for teachers to use with their students.
InqScribe 1.0.1
July 23, 2005
InqScribe 1.0.1 is out. This version fixes several minor bugs, and fixes a major incompatibility with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).
Inquirium releases InqScribe 1.0
July 11, 2005
Inquirium today released InqScribe, a cross-platform solution for transcribing, annotating, and subtitling digital media files. Designed by and for researchers who work with extensive audio and video data, InqScribe features a flexible editing environment, customizable keyboard shortcuts for controlling media playback, and a range of import and export options. InqScribe transcripts contain embedded timecodes that allow instant access to arbitrary times within the media file. Extensive subtitling support make it easy to generate captioned media from transcript files. Available for Mac OS X, Mac Classic and Windows, InqScribe is on sale for $49 through July 31, $69 thereafter.
Showing Evidence Tool Debuts!
June 30, 2005
Our newest project just debuted on Intel’s Innovation in Education web site! Intel tapped us to develop Showing Evidence, a web-based tool designed to help students engage in evidence-based reasoning. It visualizes and structures the task of analyzing and using evidence to support or refute a claim. Anyone can sign up to use the tool. All you need is web access, a recent browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape), and the Flash 7.0 plugin. Check out the Intel Innovation in Education site for details.